Definition of Maitreya

1. Noun. The Bodhisattva who is to appear as a Buddha 5000 years after the death of Gautama.

Generic synonyms: Boddhisatva, Bodhisattva

Definition of Maitreya

1. Proper noun. A bodhisattva who is considered, in Buddhism, to be a future Buddha. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Maitreya

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Mainer
Mainers
Maintenon
Mainz
Maire
Maisie
Maissiat's band
Maisy
Maitland
Maitreya (current term)
Maitreyan
Maj
Maja
Maja squinado
Majesty
Majidae
Majocchi's disease
Majocchi granulomas
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Major Mitchell
Major Mitchell's cockatoo
Major Mitchell's cockatoos
Majorana
Majorana hortensis

Literary usage of Maitreya

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Buddhist Art in India by Albert Grünwedel (1901)
"Gandhara period, alongside Gautama, Maitreya and Kasyapa in particular play ... Ka^yapa lies uncorrupted in his stupa : when Maitreya shall appear on earth ..."

2. The History of India from the Earliest Ages by James Talboys Wheeler (1874)
"Maitreya arrives at the house of Vasanta-sdna, and delivers his message, ... She then promises to visit Charudatta in the evening, and Maitreya departs with ..."

3. The Library of Choice Literature and Encyclopædia of Universal Authorship edited by Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon (1893)
"Ha, ha, ray friend, you are apt to say of me, that blockhead Maitreya, that dunderhead Maitreya ; but it was a wise trick of mine to give the casket to you ..."

4. The Gospel of Buddha According to Old Records by Paul Carus (1895)
"Maitreya. The Blessed One proceeded with a great company of the brethren to the shala grove of the Mallas, ..."

5. On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629-645 A.D. by Thomas Watters (1905)
"In the three Meetings in which Maitreya will preach he will ordain the disciples ... Maitreya P'usa hearing these words of the Buddha rose from his seat and ..."

6. Publications by Oriental Translation Fund (1905)
"The pilgrim next tells of a tope at the place where, he says, Mei-ta-li-ya (Maitreya) P'usa received from the Buddha the prophecy of his future attainment ..."

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